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OPERATING MEANS Filed April 9, l928- Patented Oct. 17, 1933 OPERATING MEANS Walter L. Ringling, South Bend, Ind., assignor to Bendix Brake Company, South Bend, Ind., a corporation of Illinois Application'April 9, 1928. Serial No. 268,670

1 Claim. (01. 28752.02)

This invention relates to means for operating pressed or drawn from sheet steel, the serrations mechanism such as brakes, and is illustrated as afterwards being formed by broaching or otherembodied in a novel operating device for a rearwise. The flange '24 is formed with a series o wheel automobile brake. An object of the inangularly-spaced openings 26, preferably of keyvention is to provide a simple and inexpensive hole shape, all facing the same direction. 60 operating device which can easily be adjusted. The lever is shown as made by welding together One feature of the invention relates to securing face to face two channel-section steel stampings a micrometer adjustment, by the use of a novel 28 and 30, thus forming a hollow lever provided connector arranged between and interlocking with an opening 32 for the passage of a brake rod with a member fixed on the operating shaft, and or the like 34. The brake rod 34 has a Wing nut 65 9-150 with an Operating level Which s a gu a ly 36 to operate the lever, shown formed with a proadjustable with respect to the shaft. In order to jection on its base to seat in a transverse depressecure the desired micrometer adjustment, the sion formed by registering notches 38 formed in connector interlocks with the fixed member in the two stampings 28 and 30. The lever is also one number of relative angular positions, and formed with a series of angularly-spaced open- 70 with the lever in a different number of relative ings 40, of keyhole shape, facing the other way angular positions. from openings 26 and differing in number from.

Another feature of the invention relates to the openings 26. For example there may be ten openuse of a coil spring, confined between the lever ings 26 and nine openings 40. Lever 28-30 is and a stop on the end of the shaft, to hold the shown sleeved freely on boss 22. 3'5 lever against the connector and the connector Between lever 28-30 and flange 24, there is against the fixed member. arranged a connector 42, having one or more i- Other features, including a novel lever conshaped tongues 44 pressed out in one direction struction and other desirable details of conand adapted to interlock with openings 26, and

5 struction, will be apparent from the following also having one or more similar tongues 46 description of one illustrative embodiment shown pressed out in the opposite direction and adaptin the accompanying drawing, in which: ed to interlock with the openings 40.

Figure l is avertical section through the upper A coil spring 48 sleeved on boss 22 is conpart of the brake and through the novel operating fined between the lever and a stop such as a wash- 30 11188-115; er 50 held by a pin 52 passing through boss 22 and 85 Figure 2 is a section through the operating shaft 18. This spring holds the lever against the means, on the line 22 of Figure 1; connector 42, and the connector against flange 24-.

Figure 3 is a partial elevation of the lever, It will be observed that a shift of the connector partly broken away in section on the line 3--3 of to the next opening 26 gives a change of 36 of Figure the lever, while shifting it to the next opening 90 Figure 4 is a side elevation of the member fixed in the opposite direction movesthe lever to on the camshaft; in the other direction giving a net change of Figure 5 is a side elevation of the connector; only 4. and While one illustrative embodiment has been de- 40 Figure 6 isapartial section through the connecscribed in detail, it is not my intention to limit 95 tor on the line 6-6 of Figure 5. the scope of the invention to that particular eni- In he arrangement ed, the brake inbodiment, or otherwise than by the terms of the cludes a rotatable brake drum 10, at the open side appended claim. of which is a support such as a backing plate 12, I claim:

and within which is arranged the friction means Operating means comprising, in combination, 100 14 Operated by means 511011 as a cam Cam 16 a shaft, a member fixed on the shaft and having. has a Operating Shaft 13 Journaled in a bracket a tubular part sleeved on the shaft and a flange 20 bolted t the backing plate The P e at one end of said part, a rotatable lever freely vention relates to the means for operating the pivotally embracing the tubular part of said Shaft member, a connector between said flange and the 1 5 TheDP means Shown includes a member lever, a stop adjacent the end of the shaft, and a fixed on the shaft, and having an internally-sercoil spring sleeved on the tubular part and com rated tubular central boss 22 sleeved on the serpressed between the lever and said stop. rated end of the shaft, and having an outwardlyextending flange 24. This member may be WALTER L. RINGLING. 

